It’s May 6. 
Today is “No Homework Day.”  What can you write in your notebook that would convince your teacher to celebrate this day with you?

 

Trivial Fact of the Day:   The pencil was invented more than 425 years ago in 1565.  A typical pencil today could draw a line 35 miles long.

Interesting Quote of the Day:  “Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.”  --Lawrence Kasdan (American film producer and screenwriter)

Vocabulary Word of the Day:  subterfuge (noun) – here’s a really fancy noun that means cheating.  Even though you shouldn’t have, when is the last time you committed subterfuge on a homework assignment?  Why did you do it?

It's Tuesday!!!! 

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